Jan 10, 2013
editors note: VLTP continues to follow the assault on the USPS…We wrote about this USPS privatization effort in April 2012: http://www.vltp.net/alec/senat… and released a full investigative report about such privatization efforts and how Congress was influenced to pass the The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act to begin the process of privatization: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10…What was not mentioned [...]
Jun 26, 2012
Cars, buses and vans of labor and community activists will form a Caravan to Washington, DC, in the early hours of Thursday, June 28, to join a mushrooming national hunger strike to save postal services and jobs. The nationally organized hunger strike was initiated by Community and Postal Workers United, spearheaded by postal workers in Seattle, [...]
Apr 25, 2012
By Bob Sloan The Senate today voted to pass a bill to salvage the USPS – for now. Critical to avoiding a proposed shut down of hundreds of postal facilities and centers with the loss of 200,000 jobs, the news was cautiously welcomed by VLTP. While the House has yet to vote on similar legislation, [...]
Apr 22, 2012
by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) In today’s Charlottte Observer, NC Senator Richard Burr, one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate had the following to say about the USPS: While the future of the Postal Service is uncertain, what we do know is that comprehensive reform will be needed to address its many [...]
Apr 19, 2012
CHARLOTTE – U.S. postal workers across the nation took to the streets on one of the busiest postal days of the year, to rally for support. Members of the American Postal Workers and the National Postal Mail Handlers Unions want the public to know about possible changes to service. They said those changes would be [...]
Apr 18, 2012
The United States Postmaster General is standing by his salary, despite ongoing hardships for the U.S. Postal Service. U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) has criticized the Postmaster for accepting an $800,000 compensation package while many rural post offices face closure. The Postmaster was in Helena recently to talk about the agency’s budget and addressed the [...]
Apr 2, 2012
March 31, 2012: Today a number of groups concerned with the way Duke Energy continues to pollute our planet, protested at ALEC member Duke Energy’s Offices at 550 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 (in case you feel compelled to send Jim Rogers a written message). It was truly inspiring to be with a group [...]
